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SEC Newgate UK: Award-winning approach of a Communications Agency
…have helped to shift the dial on conversations around hydrogen. The organisation: SEC Newgate is committed to being net-zero by 2030, and aims to further support the transition to net-zero…
Hundreds of EVs for Amazon and water stewardship schemes: The sustainability success stories of the week
…manager for Germany, Rocco Brauniger, said: “We are committed to reaching net-zero carbon by 2040, and reducing our delivery-related emissions is a critical part of this goal. Last year, we…
African elephant habitats and Octopus Energy’s renewable ‘power-ups’: The sustainability success stories of the week
…the quiver of ‘demand flexibility’ and it’s great to work with an innovator like UK Power Networks.” RESOURCES: Zero-waste metrics unveiled for the rail industry Image: Network Rail When we…
National Infrastructure Commission: UK should rule out hydrogen for home heating
…This edition places much focus on the transformation the nation’s energy systems will need to undergo to align with the nation’s 2050 net-zero goal and interim carbon budgets in an…
What makes a biodiversity net-gain target work?
…in everything we do. We have a number of sustainability ambitions including to be operationally net-zero by 2050 and reducing the capital carbon through intelligent design. Additionally, we are now…
Hydrogen: on the road to net zero
…zero global research shows that 73% of UK energy decision makers are interested in trialing or installing hydrogen-ready CHP as part of their net zero pathway. With its high efficiency…
COP28: Vital agreement on Loss and Damage network reached as climate summit continues past time
…a shared vision to “reduce both consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner so as to achieve net-zero by, before, or around 2050 in…
Government targets 10% of jet fuel to come from sustainable sources
…published its much-anticipated Jet-Zero Strategy in 2022 – a plan for aligning the aviation sector with the net-zero targets first outlined in its 2021 Transport Decarbonisation Plan. These are 2040…
Ikea’s green steel deal and Carlsberg’s coal phase-out: The sustainability success stories of the week
…for slow progress towards net-zero; its progress report revealed that a lack of clear policy signals and collaboration to make homes more energy efficient was leaving the built environment lagging…
UK firms need policy support to turn decarbonisation plans into action
…net-zero pledge, according to the Government’s advisory body the Climate Change Committee (CCC). the CCC is foreseeing only a small change in the UK’s likely emissions trajectory in the near-term…
Climate target for 2040 will be EU Commission’s ‘legacy’, activists say
…higher level of ambition, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. “We would prefer to see a net-zero emissions target for 2040,” he told Euractiv, a position which…
BMW firms up £600m investment to keep electric Mini production in the UK
…the DfT confirmed a new research hub backed with £10m of Government funding. The Net-Zero Transport for a Resilient Future hub also includes four universities, National Highways, Network Rail, UK…
Is the UK losing out in the global EV race?
…UK set its net-zero target – there have been pots of funding here and there, like the £2bn. Ministers have come under increasing pressure to update the existing outdated strategy…
Environment Bank launches new biodiversity credits
…not get to net-zero without nature, and it’s time to put repairing the planet first on the agenda.” Earlier this year, the UK Government announced that developers will need to…
Boiler Upgrade Scheme gets £1.5bn boost in bid to ease heat pump transition
…heat pump was still a deterrent to many homes and argued that the general public should not have to bear the burden of net-zero transition costs – particularly in a…
Is nature-positive business a possibility or paradox?
…nature loss and degradation, participants noted that every company had a duty to reduce those main drivers causing nature loss, and net-zero carbon targets can start them out on that…
MPs urge: Use roads funding to fix potholes, not encourage more car use
…England does have a net-zero strategy – but concludes that plans to ensure that traffic on the expanded road network is not high-carbon are too weak. “There is a risk…
UK Government to keep homes warm using waste heat from data centres
…announcing the creation of the Great British Insulation Scheme, Switching to low-carbon heat sources and solutions forms a major part of the Government’s task to reach net-zero by 2050. Currently,…
Corporates face greenwashing concerns over misaligned trade association memberships
…on the Race to Zero and Science Based Targets initiative by providing corporates and investors with time-based frameworks to deliver net-zero, based on short, medium and long-term targets. InfluenceMap claims…
How to navigate the carbon neutrality and net zero minefield
…to net zero, the emission boundaries are much clearer: net zero should cover all of Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions. As far as offsets are concerned, unlike…
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